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Today is Nikini Full Moon Poya day:
Buddhism encourages mutual respect for all religions
Buddhist tolerance springs from the recognition
that the tendencies and spiritual needs of human beings are too
vastly diverse to be encompassed by any single teaching, and thus
these needs will naturally find expression in a wide variety of
religious forms.
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Vignettes
Feeling at home in the universe
Most people use philosophy to justify
their beliefs. Others use it to challenge accepted beliefs. In such
a situation, what is the role of philosophy? Are philosophers
expected to explode age-old myths?
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Thorns on the Side
A momentous step
The other day, I was watching the Bruce Willis
movie Armageddon on TV. The story is about how a group of intrepid
astronauts ward off an asteroid on a collision course with the
Earth. They actually land on the asteroid and of course, it is left
for our hero Willis to blow up the asteroid with a nuclear bomb,
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